Quotes About Leadership

Doing what you say, leading by example, showing consistency and fairness—these actions all build trust between managers and their teams over the long term.

Pope sees that keeping people on the same page takes total follow-through. "We told the groups though our action," he explains, "that we're not hard-nosed and [it isn't that we] don't care about what they think. We proved to them they have a voice and we ought to listen to it. And we know that if we're really listening we ought to react.

Hacer política consiste en ceder en lo accesorio para no ceder en lo esencial.

Weick urges leaders to continually discredit much of what the think they know - to doubt, argue, contradict, disbelieve, counter, challenge, question, vacillate, and even act hypocritically.

If I'm the boss / parent, why can't I just tell my subordinates / children what to do?

Can you help me understand . . . ?" you offer the role of advisor. "Let's work on how we might . . . ." invites a partnership. "I wonder whether it's possible to . . . ." throws out a challenge, one which offers the other person the potential role of hero.

Nothing affects the learning culture of an organization more than the skill with which its executive team receives feedback.

Skills for Leading the Conversation

If there is any hope for changing the world for the better, from reducing family violence to reversing overpopulation and international conflict, economists, educators, and political leaders will need to base their interventions on a sound understanding of what people are really like, not on some fairy-tale version of what we would like them to be.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another. It is the only means.

La sensación de familiaridad que irradia un verdadero líder resulta de la capacidad que este posee de incorporar en su experiencia personal la experiencia de la especie. Esta incorporación resulta de la identidad de la conciencia del líder con la conciencia del hipercampo.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

This follows his comment on much time spent in prison for freedom speeches and preaching. "I always try to do a little converting when I'm in Jail.

Equality is a lie," Bane told her. "A myth to appease the masses. Simply look around and you will see the lie for what it is! There are those with power, those with the strength and will to lead. And there are those meant to follow—those incapable of anything but servitude and a meager, worthless existence.

The strong always stepped forward; the weak had no choice but to follow.

Set wasn't interested in ruling the galaxy. Or destroying the Jedi. It sounded like a lot of work.

the larger the staff, the more important it becomes to make sure responsibility is owned by individuals and not by the group.

Just as "good fences make good neighbors," clear delineations of responsibility can prevent the kind of turf battles that break down staff relationships.

You can run a business any way you like, but you'll run it better if you build it around your strengths.

To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.

Fourth, a Hebron lifestyle will give you the ability to walk in great authority.

What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.